To:INESSA ARMAND

Written:Written February 2, 1917Published:First published in 1964 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49.

      Sent from Zurich to Clarens.

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DearFriend,

Itwas very interesting yesterday at Olten. Non-attendance of the
French and Italians enabled Radek+Levi+Grigory+Münzenberg to tell Grimm
the whole truth to his face. Radek told me this today, and Grigory will
probably write to you about it.

ReArbeiterpolitik, write to Radek—he has already left
(Herrn Sobelsohn. Zur Stelle.Davos-Dorf).

Onwhat “central point” I did not answer you, I cannot even guess.

Amwaiting for you to explain.

Iknow about Marx’s English works; they are special things that I shall
have to read in due course (I bought some of them in London and started to
read them, but did not finish), butnow I have no time.

ThatGrimm “does not want a mass movement”, or rather does not want
revolutionary work, you are quite right. His article is generally and
wholly Kautskian, Centrist, fraudulent.

ThatBerne Kautskyite and 0. C. man Spectator has issued a small
pamphlet in Berne onVaterlands-Verteidigung[1](25 cts) in which he tries to play off Radek and me against each other (I
haven’t read it all yet. I have only seen
this),[2]as Martov tried to do yesterday (defending!!!  Grimm). A
futile, vain attempt!

Allthe best,Lenin

[1]Afilthy Kautskian-O. C. thing!  Will I answer him! He’ll be pleased!
—Lenin

[2]Thisrefers to the pamphlet by Spectator (M. I. Nakhimson)Vaterlands-Verteidigung und auswärtige Politik der
Sozial-demokratie(Defence of the Fatherland and the Foreign Policy of
Social-Democracy).